What songs do you want played at your funeral

alanthemanc

Ha Ha , I don't want to sound morbid, or think your gonna keel over today, but I was thinking what songs would I want at my funeral.
Here goes
1..Man With The Child In His Eyes................. Kate Bush.
2..Man Of The World .....................................Fleetwood Mac
3..Stargazer................................Richie Blackmore's Rainbow.
4..Goodbye To Love...................... The Carpenters
5..Thunderstruck.............................A.C.D.C.

A bit varied, I was going to include anything by Thin Lizzy, and Camel, but you can only pick 5, what are your top 5 funeral songs. Alanthemanc

dreamdaisy

April in Paris sung by Sarah Vaughan. It was supposed to be played at our wedding but due to a slip up by the registry office staff it wasn't, we had something else which was obviously memorable - not. At my dad's cremation the congregation read The Lord is my Shepherd. It was fabulous, far better than grotty wavering singing. Mr DD will be played out to the ovens on a wave of Champagne Supernova by Oasis.

alanthemanc

D.D.
Some might say that whatever you choose at your funeral, sort of reflects your personality while your alive. That Sarah Vaughn, and Ella Fitzgerald are legends, good choice. ALanthemanc

alanthemanc

Del
Ha ha, see what I mean, you seem to want to go out with a smile :P

dreamdaisy

Oooooooh Alan, you smooth-tongued flatterer you! Yup, it takes a legend to recognise other legends.

alanthemanc

D.D.
I think my mother wants Frank Sinatra at her funeral, but she does like Queen, Oasis, but she hates the Smiths . Strange woman, although I can't see anyone picking " Heaven knows I'm miserable now ", that would be toooooo depressing. Alanthemanc

dachshund

Hi Alan.
i love westlife and i want you raise me up and flying without wings.
joan xx

carola

zipeedaydoodah

they told me I should go to rehab .. I said no, no, no!

smile - judy garland

daylily

Bat out of hell- meatloaf

Poppyg1rl

Always look on the bright side of life - from The Life of Brian, never fails to to make me laugh I want lots of smiles at my funeral! Xxx

coco67

If your happy and you know it clap your hands,

follow the yellow brick road,

i am the one and only by chesney hawks, (awful song but id be laffing)


black is band everyone has to wear bright colors or fancy dress, and a party down the pub after.

NinaKKang

Staying Alive by the Bee Gees But seriously? Probably Don't Stop Me Now by Queen.

I would like it recorded that, if I wasn't a Sikh and was being buried rather than cremated, I would like my epitaph (is that the right word?) to read:

Nina Kaur Kang
BURIED ALIVE

Nxx

liesa

afraid im a bit boring... told mine so many times
Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman, time to say goodbye
eva cassidy somewhere over the rainbow,
songbird


my hubby wants norman greenbaum, spirit in the sky...

barbara12

Smile by Nat King Cole....wish I could be there to hear it...
And I love Cocos if you are happy and you know it clap your hands,,,

cloud9

I would choose Going Home by Dire Straits
Songbird and Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy.

valval

been thinking about this all day and got no idea but will keep thinking .
could always have once twice three times a lady(i wish was always a tom boy)

lindalegs

♪It's Over, I ain't Coming Back♪ by Level 42

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7NvYgufPds

frogmorton

My Mum had 'memories.....' and

Rod stewart's 'sailing'

Dad had a 'whiter shade of pale'

Ll have no idea but liked yours legs

love

Toni xx

tkachev

2 people have quoted smile as their choice...is this the Smile written by Charlie Chaplin...smile when your heart is aching....etc?

Just wondered.

Try a little tenderness by Otis Redding,
Don't look back in anger Oasis
Looking for you Garnett Mimms.

I hope I will have done something worthwhile by the time I die.

Elizabeth

frogmorton

You already have Elizabeth.....

you had your kids

Love

toni xx

katekelly

I'm going into church to 'O mio babio caro'.
Having the hymns 'The servant King', 'Shine Jesus Shine', 'Thine be the Glory' and 'Here in the love of Christ I stand' - and when it's time for the curtain to go round at the crem I'm having 'Who wants to live for ever' by Queen!!

tjt6768

Janet is under strict instructions... Obviously I am shedding my mortal coil before her.. :shock:

David Bowie - Sorrow (it has been let known that this is not a reflection on Janet with her long blonde her and her eyes of blue..)

David Bowie - My Death

Job done, shovels out, stick me in the ground...

tillytop

ooh - thought I was the only one who thought about this sort of stuff and it was just me being morbid due to my currently not very upbeat state of mind! :roll:

Pirates of the Carribean theme tune, played VERY loudly by the brass band my brother plays with (they are very good).

And/or Sarabande by somebody "classical" I can't remember at the mo.

Or, in my really morbid moments, I think I would like "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (Don't leave me) sung by Nina Simone (guaranteed to make even the most unemotional person howl I reckon - and I'd like to think someone would cry at my funeral :roll:)

Tilly xxx

suncatcher

Another one bites the dust by queen
Who wants to live forever by queen

valval

suncatcher wrote:

Another one bites the dust by queen
Who wants to live forever by queen

love both these

mirabella

My request would be:
BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME--CELION DION
FEILDS OF GOLD--EVA CASSIDY
TOMMORROW NEVER COMES-- ROWAN KEATING
THEN FOR THE HELL OF IT ANY BIT OF COUNTRY WILL DO ESPECIALLY A BIT OF JOHNNY CASH!!
THATS A HARD ONE TO THINK OF,especially as I have just got my life back to some sort of normal ask in again in about 10yrs